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Eric’s EdgeIf you are participating in <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23marchintosh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marchintosh</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23globaltalk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globaltalk</a> and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23hypercard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.

Eric's EdgeIf you are participating in <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/marchintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marchintosh</a> and <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/globaltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globaltalk</a> and like text adventure games, the demo release of Adventure! my mostly text <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> adventure game is available for download from my Eric’s Edge zone. Including a PDF draft of the game manual.

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<a href="https://bitbang.social/@likesoldmacs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@likesoldmacs</a>Whoa, is that a <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> stack? XD

vga256reading the Hypercard manual today for UI inspiration and found an ultra hot “tearaway” action I had no idea existed until today. <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageApple</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ui</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ux</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

Karl BaronSomething I’ve noticed in screenshots others have taken of TalkCrawler is that the relative dates (“X minutes ago”) don’t seem to be working for other people, I wonder what’s going on there? <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a>

Karl BaronAnnouncing the availability of TalkCrawler for <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalTalk</a>, the all-singing, all-dancing network scanning <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> stack!This tool scans the network for zones, machines, services and file shares, keeping statistics, drawing charts, calculating uptime & latency, and helping you discover new machines that showed up overnight, even when you were asleep! A database is kept of everything found that you can browse at your leisure.Can be found in "<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a> Stuff" on Blackbird on BaroNet!<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/mb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mb</a>

Eric's EdgeAnother Adventure! Blog post regarding enchanted doors. <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventure</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://ko-fi.com/post/Adventure-Enchanted-Doors-K3K11B4PW1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://ko-fi.com/post/Adventure-Enchanted-Doors-K3K11B4PW1</a>

Karl BaronLots of progress today. All the features are in now. Some UI fixes to do, but mainly just need to optimize things, since I've been developing this on a zippy PowerBook G3 with an SSD and on anything slower it may be nearly unusable (eg all the lists get built dynamically from the cards in different backgrounds). Also, putting those icons in the lists seems pretty slow as well, might need a setting to disable them.<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalTalk</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>

Karl BaronI've managed to write a script that consistently crashes <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

vga256🧵 endjust over one year later: I FOUND ITthe image was indeed of Boy George, and was found on a shareware CD-ROM of b&w 1-bit images in .IFF formatbelow: BOYGEORGE.IFF, MADONNA1.IFF, FRAMPTON.IFFmy memory lied to me - i had thought they were scanned and atkinson-dithered photos, but they were in fact hand-drawn!thank you discmaster 🙏 <a href="http://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10753/Epic%20Collection%203,%20The%20(1997)(Epic%20Marketing)[!].iso/clipz/mono/music/people" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10753/Epic%20Collection%203,%20The%20(1997)(Epic%20Marketing)[!].iso/clipz/mono/music/people</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/1bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1bit</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageApple</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

vga256thanks to many of your very inspiring hypercard stories and stacks, i finally tracked down a copy of v1 in its original boxmy immediate impression is that apple's ambivalence toward the software is apparent all over the box. marketing/executives just didn't understand *what* hypercard was, and they didn't know how to sell it on its merits.is it a "personal toolkit for information"? an "information manager"? what the heck could that possibly mean to anyone in 1987? 😆 thank the sweet lord jebus bill atkinson pushed so hard to get hypercard packed in to every macintosh sold, because if this box was supposed to sell the product, it wouldn't have sold anything.that being said - i love this box design. it's pleasantly understated in the off-white styling of 1987 apple products. that style would disappear for over a decade, before getting resurrected (in a much more visually striking manner) with OS X and Aqua.<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageApple</a>

dan 💾(Also: long live <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>!)

Molly BSometimes I tell young people about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> and they don't fully believe me. <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/02/15/131146.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://scripting.com/2025/02/15/131146.html</a>

PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾<a href="https://dialup.cafe/@vga256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vga256</a> High-stakes stacks <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a>

vga256bill atkinson's 25th anniversary of hypercard talk at the berkeley macintosh user's group does such a wonderful job of communicating how important it was to allow people to express themselves through software authoring, instead of leaving software development to programmers"Some of the stacks I was most interested in were stacks that were really kind of ugly, but they did exactly what this person needed. There was no way in hell a programmer would have ever been interested. There was no market to write that for. But this guy had something to do with his astronomy gear - something that helped him point his telescope. He knew what he needed; he wasn't a programmer, but he could make it.Some of the stacks did not have a lot of aesthetic polish. I used to say: some of these stacks, only a mother could love, but those mothers loved them."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/vintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageApple</a>

vga256fellow hypercard authors and vintage mac enthusiasts -we have great documentaries and books on the history of the mac and the newtonis there a book or paper(s) written on the history or hypercard and/or hypertalk? there are tons of technical books written on both, but i'm finding very little in terms of deep histories on them.<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a>

N95 subnet mask 😷EDIT: It has found a home. <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Free</a> to a good home: An original Apple user manual for HyperCard. Is it spiral bound. :apple_inc: 📖 <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputers</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/UserManual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserManual</a>

Emma Loves ☕️Help me out, oh angels, demons, and jinn who watch the fediverse!Someone has a copy to spare of the Harper Voyager edition of Susan Faludi's Backlash converted to a <a href="https://orbital.horse/tags/Hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hypercard</a> Stack. I'd love to take it off your hands so I can also get a copy to the Internet Archive.<a href="https://orbital.horse/tags/PleaseBoost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PleaseBoost</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/5518478316" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/5518478316</a>

MacintoshGarden FeedHyperTMON<a href="https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypertmon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypertmon</a>Interactive debugger for HyperCard stacks written by Peter Nagel of Soliloquy Software and published by ICOM Simulations.<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/macgarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macgarden</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/developmenttools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developmenttools</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/hypercard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypercard</a> #1989 <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/icomsimulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#icomsimulations</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/peternagel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peternagel</a>

Eric's EdgeJoin me tomorrow morning at 9 AM Eastern for more <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperCard</a> and <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HyperTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperTalk</a> coding. My solution for drawing isometric tiled game locations for my next version of Adventure!. <a href="https://youtube.com/live/t1v93BPJRQg?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/t1v93BPJRQg?feature=share</a>

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